how do you get special characters in posts

[Don Shepherd]

(12-21-2013 11:33 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:  

(12-21-2013 09:58 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  I just want to be able to insert a sigma, square root, divide, or multiply symbol.

Copy and paste from the following Unicode characters:

∑ √ ÷ ×

Mark Hardman

OK, thanks Mark. I copied those to the clipboard, pasted them in a Notepad document, saved it with Unicode encoding, and was successfully able to copy from that document and paste in the forum post. That's a solution that will work for me.